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Overwhelmed with nothing to do, me and my roommates Nany and Hitomi hit up Yi Zhong Jie, a nearby night market. There I ended up stocking up on, uh, Mandarin learning materials. Weirdly, Wu Zun and Wang Dong Cheng spend a lot of time running around in gym shorts in this particular textbook. I have no idea how this happened.
Considering the fact that Ella Chen talks roughly at the speed of machine gun fire, Jiro slurs his Mandarin like a motherfucker, and Chun has an foreign accent not too different from mine—possibly not the best learning materials here, man. WHATEVER. I WILL KEEP WATCHING THEM ALL OVERACT. UNDERACT, IN WU ZUN'S CASE.
Also found a store where classic literature translated into Mandarin is mega-cheap. Like, three to six dollars a book. I WILL NEVER OWN ENOUGH. It looks like Pride & Prejudice is a bridge (or several) too far but Alice In Wonderland is about grade level. /reads forever
Thank god, too. This means I can stop carrying around Charlie & The Chocolate Factory with me everywhere. I completely hate this book and someday I will rant at length about it.
We're learning a new Thai dance. It is very hard and had me at practice until eleven tonight. And the kneeling and the standing and the kneeling and the standing all on concrete. I have the knees of someone slightly older than I am already man this is not an awesome feeling.
TOMORROW I GET TO SLEEP IN. UNTIL ... NINE. YES.
Considering the fact that Ella Chen talks roughly at the speed of machine gun fire, Jiro slurs his Mandarin like a motherfucker, and Chun has an foreign accent not too different from mine—possibly not the best learning materials here, man. WHATEVER. I WILL KEEP WATCHING THEM ALL OVERACT. UNDERACT, IN WU ZUN'S CASE.
Also found a store where classic literature translated into Mandarin is mega-cheap. Like, three to six dollars a book. I WILL NEVER OWN ENOUGH. It looks like Pride & Prejudice is a bridge (or several) too far but Alice In Wonderland is about grade level. /reads forever
Thank god, too. This means I can stop carrying around Charlie & The Chocolate Factory with me everywhere. I completely hate this book and someday I will rant at length about it.
We're learning a new Thai dance. It is very hard and had me at practice until eleven tonight. And the kneeling and the standing and the kneeling and the standing all on concrete. I have the knees of someone slightly older than I am already man this is not an awesome feeling.
TOMORROW I GET TO SLEEP IN. UNTIL ... NINE. YES.
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I hope the dance'll become easier for you too! (And yay for sleep-ins! They're a good, good thing every now and again. May you enjoy it!)
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